Why isn't Bush treating Kim Jong-il like Saddam? Why are we allowing this threat to continue?

Question

1. The man has nuclear weapons

2. The man has threatened to bomb the west coast

3. The man oppresses his people and is a " Tyrant "

4. The man has had many chances to act correctly and makes promises to do so but repeatedly disregards them. ( for over a decade )

5. The man has violated agreements not to test missiles

6. Commits numerous crimes violating human rights.


The actions of Kim Jong-il are just as bad if not worse than Saddam so why are we not treating him accordingly? Why no " Shock and Awe " Why not send a clear message?

Answer 1

Because, like most bullies, Bush is only tough when the opposition is weak. Look how he handled the China spy plane incident. At first he demanded they return the plane and crew untouched. When it was resolved, the Chinese shipped the plane back to us in pieces and we had to apologize.

Answer 2

Well, dear "threatened" civilian this is my answer to you.

Why isn't the rest of the world treating Bush like Saddam? Why is the rest of the world allow his threat to continue?
1. The man has nuclear weapons

2. The man has threatened to bomb anyone, anywhere, anytime

3. The man oppresses his nation's youth and is a " Tyrant " in the eyes of the world

4. The man has had many chances to act correctly and makes promises to do so but repeatedly disregards them.

5. The man has violated global agreements in all sectors

6. Commits numerous crimes violating human rights.


The actions of Bush are just as bad if not worse than Saddam and Kim Jong-il so why are we not treating him accordingly? Why no " Shock and Awe " Why not send a clear message?

Answer 3

I completely agree with you. Kim Jong is a lot more threatening and scary than Saddam ever was. Wow, Saddam "had weapons of mass destruction", yet the nutjob in Korea has a missile that can reach the continental U.S. and also possibly has nuclear bombs. Yet George Dubya Bush is treating Kim Jong like a little kid with a cap gun while he treated the less dangerous man like a grown man with a rocket launcher. Short summary: Bush is an idiot and he'll feel the consequences when California gets hit by a missile.

Answer 4

Like the Middle East, the Far East doesn't want to see more of our troops in their region. Unlike the Middle East, the Far East has significant military power.

Ultimately, it comes down to the fact that Saddam couldn't actually hurt us. He posed no threat, so it was easy to go in there and get rid of him. In the meantime, the lesson everyone learned is that to avoid being invaded by the US you have to actually pose a threat... this is why Jong-Il and Ahmadinejad are determined to establish themselves as nuclear powers. This is why long range missle testing is crucial to Jong-Il. He wants us to know that he can attack us... it doesn't mean he wants to, he knows very well what would happen to his country if he attacked us. But he also knows what could happen to his country if he doesn't prove that he CAN attack us. The same goes for Ahmadinejad. Hell, we invaded two countries on either side of him... we could exercise ridiculous control over almost 50% of his land borders, not to mention his entire southern border through naval might. Combine that with us labeling his country a key player in the "axis of evil" and I don't blame him for getting nervous.

North Korea, however, is a Cold War relic, and therefore must be treated with Cold War methods, especially now that he has nuclear power. He knows we have troops in South Korea ready to be mobilized, and if anything happens he'll be very very nervous if we don't send in ground troops... because it means nukes are in the air. Our biggest mistake at the "end" of the Cold War was that we practically dismantled the CIA when we should have just changed our focus.

Answer 5

I'm with KC on this one

1. No OIL in Korea
2. hello "KIA"
3. We already have bases in Japan & S. Korea (strategic places) whereas Iraq is prime soil for a US establishment
4. Haliburton has no financial interest in N. Korea
5. They can't fight the war on Al Qaeda if doesn't claim actions in N. Korea
6. Nobody is thinking about communism any more
7. They have other things to worry about like the election
8. Ken Lay is dead, that's more important
9. If it makes too much sense, Bush Administration won't do it.
10. N. Korea has more missiles, so what, so does Palestine, Isreal, India, Iran, China, etc.

Honestly, I think the Administration is more concerned with not pulling troops from Iraq than anything else.

Answer 6

1. He doesn't have oil and therefore there is little monetary incentive to go into N. Korea.
2. He didn't try to kill Bush Senior.
3. There is complicated relationship between N. Korea/China/Russia.
4. It takes a lot more to get a nuclear weapon delivered to the United States than just pointing it at us.
5. The United States ignores many instances of human rights violations (and some would argue we do our own share...)

Answer 7

North Korea has nuclear weapons,the world's largest standing
army and shares a border with China. The Chinese don't want
Americans above the 38th parallel anyway. Remember the Korean War? MacArthur almost lost when the Chinese intervened.
Besides,with Iraq as well as possible trouble with Iran in the near
future,the U.S. doesn't want to go one-on-one with China. This
time it's truly a U.N. matter,with a lot of countries speaking out
against China. Even Bush isn't dumb enough to think the U.S. can go to war against all of the totalitarian countries in the world alone. It just goes to show most people can learn new things eventually. Too bad that doesn't apply to all of his supporters.

Answer 8

Well you have the liberal news media that has turned America unpatriotic + they only care about who is offending who when they should be worried about China teaming up with Kim and his nuclear weapons. Not only do we as Americans have to worry about getting bombed by nuclear missiles but for those of us who are young men (I'm 23) we have to worry about uncle Sam reinstating the draft. Seriously China's army out numbers our army like 10 to 1 maybe more. But I do think he is more of a threat than Saddam And Bin-Laden put together, so hell yea lets go kick his *** before he can make to many friends that we have to fight also.

Answer 9

We will not be at war with them any time soon. We have held a peaceful border between north and south for many decades without incident. We will not dare stir up **** in China's back yard. North Korea has a huge military, I believe 30% of their money goes there and 25% of people are in the military. They actually have weapons in North Korea. They don't have oil reserves on the scale of Iraq either.

Answer 10

Because instead of facing the real dangers in Iran and N. Korea good old Bush deceided to go punish Sadaam for nothing other than, and I quote Bush "I mean, he tried to kill my Daddy!".
Now that we have real problems elsewhere in the world we don't have the military to invade the real problems areas like Iran and N. Korea.
Plus if we tried invading N. Korea Kim Jong iL would launch nukes at S. Korea and Japan.

Answer 11

yeah... its oil...you idiots...

get it into your heads...

It wasn't because it was Iraq...it was BECAUSE its the war on TERROR...

And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime." -- George W. Bush

this was a week after 9/11...no mention of iraq, no mention of iran...only of countries who "harbor terrorists"...

North Korea hasn't done so...Jong-Il is just crazy...so why would we attack when they could just very well blow themselves up with a nuke?

yeah thats smart...saddams threat was real but less staggering...

duh.

besides, we have the world on our side against korea...not so with Iraq...and thats because OTHER countries (fance, spain) had ACTUAL vested interest and deals with iraqi oil companies...

not just heresay like libs do here.